In a quest to find poems for this week, I turned once again to my trusty The World Treasury of Children's Literature, by Clifton Fadiman (I have the single-volume paperback edition put out by QPBC in 1995). I was charmed by several of the English nursery rhymes listed, and have included two of them below.

Betty Botter bought some butter,But, she said, the butter's bitter;If I put it in my batterIt will make my batter bitter,But a bit of better butterWill make my batter better.So she bought a bit of butterBetter than her bitter butter,And she put it in her batterAnd the batter was not bitter.So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

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There was a crooked man, And he walked a crooked mile,He found a crooked sixpence Against a crooked stile;He bought a crooked cat, Which caught a crooked mouse,And they all lived together In a little crooked house.

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Aren't those fun? In double-checking, I found that Kelly included the Crooked Man poem on her site back in June. However, since I had already typed it up, I decided to share it with you again. Have a great weekend!

UPDATE: Here are links to some other Poetry Friday entries for the day. If I missed you, please let me know.

MsMac from Check it Out offers some excerpts from This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems From around the World, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye.

MotherReader brings us no external poetry Friday links this week, but she does share a section of a poem from an poetry collection about birds. Interestingly, the poem she selects is by Celia Thaxter (see above).

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Poetry Friday: English Nursery Rhymes

In a quest to find poems for this week, I turned once again to my trusty The World Treasury of Children's Literature, by Clifton Fadiman (I have the single-volume paperback edition put out by QPBC in 1995). I was charmed by several of the English nursery rhymes listed, and have included two of them below.

Betty Botter bought some butter,But, she said, the butter's bitter;If I put it in my batterIt will make my batter bitter,But a bit of better butterWill make my batter better.So she bought a bit of butterBetter than her bitter butter,And she put it in her batterAnd the batter was not bitter.So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

----

There was a crooked man, And he walked a crooked mile,He found a crooked sixpence Against a crooked stile;He bought a crooked cat, Which caught a crooked mouse,And they all lived together In a little crooked house.

----

Aren't those fun? In double-checking, I found that Kelly included the Crooked Man poem on her site back in June. However, since I had already typed it up, I decided to share it with you again. Have a great weekend!

UPDATE: Here are links to some other Poetry Friday entries for the day. If I missed you, please let me know.

MsMac from Check it Out offers some excerpts from This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems From around the World, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye.

MotherReader brings us no external poetry Friday links this week, but she does share a section of a poem from an poetry collection about birds. Interestingly, the poem she selects is by Celia Thaxter (see above).

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